Blades Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“mead for my men!”

— Donald Barthelme

“But why would they do that? What is to be asked? He was a man who sees into things -- very ordinary things. A…

— Joseph O'Connor

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and…

— Salvador Dali

“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear those glittering…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best…

— Anonymous

What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the…

— Washington Irving

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and…

— Joanne Harris

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love…

— Erich Fromm

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

— Anonymous

Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“And if sometimes, on the stairs of a palace, or on the green side of a ditch, or in the dreary solitude of your…

— Eugene O'Neill